Mark Williams Assistant Director (Emergency & Contingency Planning) Planning for Major Emergencies.
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Transcript of Mark Williams Assistant Director (Emergency & Contingency Planning) Planning for Major Emergencies.
Mark WilliamsAssistant Director
(Emergency & Contingency Planning)
Planning for Major Emergencies
Planning for Major Emergencies
Presentation Content:
• CCA 2004 Planning Requirements.• LRF Current Planning Arrangements• LRF New Planning Requirements• LRF Planning Example – Pandemic Flu• Summary
Civil Contingencies Act 2004Planning Requirements
Category 1 Responders must:
• Maintain plans for preventing an emergency.• Maintain plans for reducing, controlling or
mitigating the effects of an emergency.• Maintain plans for taking other action in
connection with the emergency.
Civil Contingencies Act 2004Planning Requirements
Plans must :
• Include procedure for determining whether an emergency has occurred.
• Make provision for:
training of key staff
exercising the plan
reviewing the plan • Have regard to risk assessments.
Civil Contingencies Act 2004Planning Requirements
Types of Plan:
• Generic• Site Specific
Multi Agency Plans permitted and should involve:
• Category 2 Responders• Organisations not subject to CCA e.g. Military• Have regard to voluntary organisations
Validate in exercises – and in response
Train Key Staff
Issue and disseminateMaintain, review and Consider revision
Agree and FinaliseTake direction fromRisk Assessment
Set ObjectivesDetermine actions and responsibilities
EMBED
CONSULT
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The Cycle of Emergency Planning
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Gloucestershire Local Resilience Form (LRF)
Contingency Planning Arrangements
Command Structure
• Civil Contingencies Secretariat – Cabinet Office
• Regional Resilience Team (RRT) – Bristol
• Local Resilience Forum (LRF) – Gloucestershire
• LRF Planning Sub-Group
LRF Planning Sub-Group
Established January 2001
Multi-Agency Plans completed:
• Major Incident Procedures Manual (MIP)• CBRN• Media• Search and Rescue• COMAH/REPPIR
LRF Planning Sub-Group
New Planning Requirements:
• Risk Assessment• Fuel• Central Government Capabilities Programme
The Capabilities Programme
• CBRN• Mass Casualties• Mass Fatalities• Mass Evacuation• Site Clearance• Warning and Informing the Public• Flooding (recent addition)• Infectious Diseases – Animal/Plant • Infectious Diseases – Human (Pandemic Flu)
Pandemic Flu
Avian Flu
Pandemic Flu
Pandemic Flu
Human Flu
Pandemic Flu
Pandemic Flu
• 1918 – ‘Spanish Flu’, UK Deaths: 250,000
• 1957 – ‘Asian Flu’, UK Deaths: 33,000
• 1968 – ‘Hong Kong’, Deaths in England & Wales: 30,000
LRF Response
• Identify an LRF Pandemic Flu Lead
• Establishing an LRF Pandemic Flu Focus Group from the LRF Health Group
• Identify Co-ordinators from each Agency
LRF
LRF PANDEMIC FLUFOCUS GROUP
(Chair – Countywide Pandemic Flu Co-ordinator, DPH C&T PCT)
LRF HEALTH GROUP
EDUCATION
FLU CONTINGENCY
PLANNING
FLU CO-ORDINATING
GROUP
FLU CO-ORDINATING
GROUP
FLU CO-ORDINATING
GROUP
SOCIAL SERVICES OPs & SUPPORT
SERVICESCOMMUNITY HOSPITALS
NURSING STAFF
COMMUNITY PHARMACISTS GP’s
HPA/CCDC
3 PCTCO-ORDINATORS
AMBULANCE TRUST
POLICE PARTNERSHIP TRUST
LOCAL AUTHORITY
(EMS)
HOSPITALS FOUNDATION
TRUST
3 PCT CO-ORDINATING
COMMITTEES
Business Continuity
• Reduction of over 30/35% Staff
• Disruption to the supply chain
• Loss of services
Civil Contingencies Act 2004Planning Requirements
SUMMARY
• CCA/Capabilities Programme/Risk Assessment will generate large multi-agency planning workload.
• Gloucestershire LRF well placed to meet these new challenges.
Integration